Issue #40 of the broadsheet newspaper publication of the Platypus Affiliated Society. October 2011 articles include: "The Marxist turn: The New Left in the 1970s" by Carl Davidson, Tom Riley, and Mel Rothenberg; "Lenin the liberal? A reply to Chris Cutrone" by David Adam; "Lenin's politics: A rejoinder to David Adam on Lenin's liberalism" by Chris Cutrone.